Re Nearly half of cellphone calls will be scams by 2019, report says

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "critch () drunkenlogic com critch () drunkenlogic com" <critch () drunkenlogic com>
> Date: September 21, 2018 at 03:58:15 GMT+9
> To: ip <ip () listbox com>, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>, dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re Nearly half of cellphone calls will be scams by 2019, report says
> Reply-To: "critch () drunkenlogic com critch () drunkenlogic com" <critch () drunkenlogic com>
>
> I wish we could apply spam email tech to phone calls. 
>
> The phone companies know where a call originates, in as much as where it entered the phone system. VoIP doesn't need 
> to be considered at this moment since most people still connect to a phone company somewhere to communicate with cell 
> phones. 
>
> Allow people a * code to report the previous call as a spam/scam call. With enough complaints against a single 
> originating phone company, they get cut off from the network. 
>
> This should make each phone company become acutely aware when they are hosting spam/scam companies. They will have a 
> major interest in not being placed in a black hole. 
>
> So the idea is, if rural phone company has a customer that is either themselves a scammer, or their VoIP system is 
> not secured, the instant scam calls start getting reported, the phone company will start receiving the call details 
> of bad calls. They can then start monitoring or preparing to cut off that customer. At that point the phone company 
> is still considered a good actor themselves. 
>
> If the phone company did not act on the issue, then all other phone companies could choose to block all incoming 
> calls originating on the offending company. 
>
> I think this is possible since the phone company is still majorly centralized. A central point to block bad actors 
> companies would be much more efficient than all the individual users trying to create/use some form of blocking 
> strategies.
>
> This solution also doesn't care about spoofed caller id.  



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